Track star Jordan Moore streaks onto Auburn's recruiting big board

Jordan Moore: On the fast track to college football (Auburn Bureau photo)

AUBURN, Alabama -- Jordan Moore played one play on defense late in the regular season before being pressed into duty as a safety for three playoff games his senior year.

He must have been impressive.

The football player and track star says he's got 20 college offers, including one from Auburn. The 6-foot-2, 195-pounder from Martin Luther King High School in Lithonia, Ga., made an official to the Tigers over the weekend.

His first two recruiting visits? To LSU and Clemson for their track teams.

It wasn't until his high school coaches prepared a highlight video in November that college football coaches found their way to his door.

"Two weeks after that, I got an offer from Ohio State. After that, everything just took off. Schools starting coming out of the woodwork, coming out of the bushes," Moore said.

As the Feb. 1 signing day draws near, Moore says he's considering Auburn, TCU and North Carolina. He plans to play football and run track in college. He said he'd visit TCU next weekend.

"I went to sleep with a dream and woke up with a reality. It was a really dream just to sit down with Coach Chizik and really discuss my opportunity to play at the next level at Auburn University," Moore said.

Moore said he didn't mind the move from wide receiver to defense because "I could play wide recevier, quarterback and linebacker at the same time, and still run super, super fast."

How fast? He holds two state track titles in Georgia. He said his best time in the 55-meter hurdles is two-tenths of a second off the world record.

Maybe that's why he said his college goal is to "try to win a couple of national championships on the track as well as on the football field."